Quote from: piebeyb on October 15, 2023, 04:05:19 PM

Quote from: Blitzboy on October 15, 2023, 03:50:17 PM

Imagine a virtual platform where you can train, breed, and fight digital roosters. Its virtual, so they have their own stats and skills and everything's fair! Strategy, breeding, conflicts, betting, and excitement continue without real animals being hurt. What do cockfighting veterans think about this digitalisation of their sport

Actually, I have thought about this before and discussed it too, in the era of increasingly sophisticated technology, will they continue to use real animals to suffer from cockfighting betting, even though it could be developed like a virtual NFT where chickens can be bought according to the capabilities they have? so you can fight cockfights online at this online casino which is specifically for virtual cockfighting.

Where currently NFTs have become an alternative for gambling in the form of animals and for example I have seen a site where there is a horse racing competition where the horse is a virtual NFT that we can buy on Opensea and each NFT horse can compete with other NFT horses to get present. I think cockfighting can also be developed like that so that no animal has to be injured or hurt, let alone die because of fighting in gambling.

Having virtual competitions of animals is good alternative to real world fighting of animals. Especially when it involves death of an animal the sport will be illegal in many countries. Betting on such type of sports can have moral consequences if it becomes known publicly. Not sure if NFT is really going to be the solution here, but I could imagine that some games would become very popular if there is such big competition. Also does it really have to be real world animals like roosters or horses? It's already a virtual game, why not make it virtual creatures too? Pokémon would be the perfect game, millions of people already know it and played it in the past. Having now a more competitive side where it's all about fighting and tournaments could attract a lot of new players. On top of that it would be easy to create a betting market where gamblers could place money on their favorite trainers.